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A senior officer who was recently demoted after he pleaded guilty to impaired driving wont be taking on a role as acting superintendent.

The Toronto Police Service has confirmed the closure of a licensed, fully-stocked bar at its headquarters after an officer who had allegedly drunk there was charged with impaired driving. The decision was communicated to senior officers in May, with the liquor licence not due for renewal. A spokespe

The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is shutting down the licensed bar inside its downtown headquarters that’s served senior officers mostly below the radar for more than 30 years, after a possible connection to a superintendent’s drunk driving crash.

Riyaz Hussein spent time in the executive officer’s lounge at College Street headquarters, which has a liquor licence and fully stocked bar

Demotion in rank from superintendent to inspector will last for one year

Officer charged in car crash was inside said bar three hours before crash

A Toronto Police Service superintendent entered a lounge with a licensed fully-stocked bar in police headquarters about three hours before he crashed his service-issued SUV into another vehicle in Pickering, Ont., and was charged with impaired driving in January 2022, CBC Toronto has learned.

An open bottle of Appleton Estate Rum was located and seized from under the driver's seat in the vehicle Hussein was driving, the statement of particulars says.

Supt. Riyaz Hussein will be demoted to the rank of inspector for 12 months after pleading guilty Monday.

Why (and how) do police in Canadas largest city have access to a fully-stocked, liquor-licensed bar inside their own office building? Its a quest...